Hitachi 9900 User Manual

Front-end Design of the
Hitachi Freedom Storage

™

Lightning 9900

™

V Series

CHIPs Support Fibre Channel Host and ESCON

or FICON

™

H o s t

Connectivity and Scalability

The Lightning 9900

™

V Series supports both Fibre Channel for open systems and

ESCON

or FICON

™

for IBM

S/390

- and zOS

™

- compatible platforms as shown in

Figure 12.

Figure 12 – Fibre
Channel and ESCON or
FICON adapter boards
connect to open systems
and mainframe
computers.